Preface: New challenges in anostracan research, a tribute to Graziella Mura

Hydrobiologia, Sep 2017

Federico Marrone, D. Christopher Rogers, Paola Zarattini, Luigi Naselli-Flores

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Preface: New challenges in anostracan research, a tribute to Graziella Mura

Preface: New challenges in anostracan research, a tribute to Graziella Mura Federico Marrone Luigi Naselli-Flores 0 1 2 3 4 . D. Christopher Rogers 0 1 2 3 4 . Paola Zarattini . 0 1 2 3 4 0 D. C. Rogers Kansas Biological Survey and the Natural History Museum (Biodiversity Institute), Kansas University , Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759 , USA 1 F. Marrone Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies - Section of Zoology, University of Palermo , via Archirafi 18, 90123 Palermo , Italy 2 Guest editors: Federico Marrone, D. Christopher Rogers, Paola Zarattini & Luigi Naselli-Flores / New Challenges in Anostracan Research: a Tribute to Graziella Mura 3 L. Naselli-Flores (&) Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies - Section of Botany and Plant Ecology, University of Palermo , via Archirafi 28, 90123 Palermo , Italy 4 P. Zarattini Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste , via Valerio 28, 34127 Trieste , Italy This special volume of Hydrobiologia is dedicated to the memory of Graziella Mura, who unexpectedly passed away on 23 March 2016 when she was still carrying out her highly influential and worldrenowned research on Anostraca. She provided outstanding contributions to the current knowledge of the taxonomy and ecology of this distinctive crustacean group over the last 45 years. This volume is a tribute to her and her role in anostracan research by the community of anostracan specialists. - Graziella Mura was born in Milan (Italy) on 7 December 1940. She graduated from the University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza’’ (Italy), where she later became Professor of Zoology. There, she passionately devoted herself to teaching and research. She established the ‘‘Laboratory of Applied Zoology’’ at the University of Rome, offering many students the opportunity to train and make their first research experiences, and promoting and supervising countless Master and PhD theses. Her research interests from the first focused on inland water crustaceans, especially the anostracans. She co-authored her first publication on Anostraca in 1972 (Cottarelli & Mura, 1972) , and more than 1 year after her death, papers with her co-authorship are still being published, demonstrating her dynamic research activities until the very last days of her life (e.g. Cottarelli et al., 2017; Kappas et al., 2017; Zarattini et al., 2017) . The last paper she co-authored before she April 1983. Professor Graziella Mura sampling in the temporary pond ‘‘T19’’ of the Castelporziano Presidential Estate (Rome, Italy), where Chirocephalus diaphanus and Chirocephalus kerkyrensis co-occur (see Mura & Cottarelli, 1984) passed away concerns the protection of the Iberian endemic Linderiella baetica Alonso & Garcia-deLomas, 2009, demonstrating her personal commitment to the protection of this group of crustaceans (Garcia de Lomas et al., 2016). In more than four decades of activity, Graziella Mura described six anostracan species (Cottarelli & Mura, 1975, 1984; Cottarelli et al., 2007, 2010) , and produced pioneer works on anostracan taxonomy, ecology and faunistics. In particular, she increased our knowledge on the importance and significance of anostracan egg morphology (e.g. Mura et al., 1978; Mura, 1986; Mura, 1991, 1992a; Bruner et al., 2013) , investigated anostracan use in aquaculture (e.g. Mura, 1992b, 1995; Mura et al., 1997, 1999; Mura & Fancello, 2005) , contributed to the knowledge of Palearctic anostracan biodiversity and taxonomy (e.g. Nagorskaya et al., 1998; Mura, 1999, 2001; Brtek & Mura, 2000; Mura & Azari Takami, 2000; Mura & Nagorskaya, 2005; Mura et al., 2011) , with a special focus on the genus Artemia Leach, 1819 (e.g. Mura et al., 1989a, 1989b; Mura, 1990; Mura & Brecciaroli, 2004; Mura et al., 2005, 2006; Amat et al., 2007; Gajardo & Mura, 2011) , and produced innovative works on the molecular systematics and phylogeography of the group (e.g. Ketmaier et al., 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012; Zarattini et al., 2013) . Dormancy in Anostraca was one of the main topics of her research, and she contributed to understand the mechanisms allowing the hatching of diapause eggs by investigating the underlying genetic, epigenetic and environmental causes (e.g. Mura & Zarattini, 1999; Zarattini et al., 2002; Maffei et al., 2005) . She also compiled the first comprehensive monograph on the Italian anostracan fauna (Cottarelli & Mura, 1983) , which is still a standard reference in the westPalearctic. This resulted in her appointment as coordinator for the ‘‘large branchiopod’’ group (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata) for the ‘‘Checklist of the Italian fauna’’ (Cottarelli et al., 1995) and ‘‘CkMap’’ (Mura, 2005) projects. She was among the members of the editorial board of Journal of Biological Research—Thessaloniki since the beginning of its publication and actively contributed to the journal management until t (...truncated)


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Federico Marrone, D. Christopher Rogers, Paola Zarattini, Luigi Naselli-Flores. Preface: New challenges in anostracan research, a tribute to Graziella Mura, Hydrobiologia, 2017, pp. 1-4, DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3355-4